Forman’s direction of Cuckoo’s Nest put him “in the front rank of those who struggled to make big, commercial films with countercultural sensibilities. His sympathy for the odd man out was always apparent, even as his movies grew in scope.”
Genial Gay Comedy Attacked By Conservative Catholic Group For Blasphemy
Out Front, Atlanta’s new LGBTQetc. theater company, was preparing its upcoming production of Paul Rudnick’s The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told when it began receiving messages and a petition from an organization called American Needs Fatima thundering that “this blasphemous play is a vile insult to the Mother of God!”
Art Critic Finds Out What It’s Like To See Yayoi Kusama Show With Regular (Huge) Crowds – And It Worries Him
Philip Kennicott: “This exhibition highlights problems far deeper than those raised by the all-too-successful blockbuster shows of the past. This isn’t about managing success and finding the right balance between access for crowds and the integrity of the individual aesthetic experience. Rather, this is about the nature of experience itself, and whether museums want to reinforce an understanding of existence that is fractured, competitive, capitalistic and ultimately alienated from art.”
Since Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms Are So Wildly Popular, Why Not Just Make More Copies Of Them?
“Because one essential feature of the contemporary art world is artificial scarcity,” Philip Kennicott writes. “Theoretically, the Hirshhorn could line its ringed galleries with four or five versions of each room. More people could see them, and more people could experience the effect for longer periods. Except that Kusama has defined her rooms as ‘unique art works,’ and that ultimately diminishes their reach and impact.”
Misty Copeland And Justin Peck Curate Ballet Series At Kennedy Center
“Both Peck and Copeland are established names in their art forms, but handing them the reins for a major event on the Kennedy Center’s ballet subscription series is a risk. Why did the center decide on guest curators, and on these artists?” Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter has an answer.
Cultivating The Next Generation Of Choreographers At Dutch National Ballet
Certainly there are other companies at work developing young dancemaking talent, but DNB artistic director Ted Brandsen has a unique four-pronged approach.
The Confusing Jumbled Controversy Over “Fearless Girl”
“Fearless Girl” was meant to be up for only one week, and had it remained so, it may not have given rise to so much protest and analysis about what such a sculpture means for feminism, public art, and Wall Street. Those a big topics for one sculpture to take on, but if Fearless Girl ends up staying for good, it will be because she’s raised questions about female empowerment and representation well beyond Wall Street.
Blurring Genres And Crossing Boundaries, Alone And In Collaboration
The artist Okwui Okpokwasili blurs boundaries, hates talking about genres, and collaborates both with her husband and a variety of other performers. “Nearly six feet tall, with a hypnotic voice and limbs that swallow up space, she pushes herself to the edge as a performer, playing with extremes of ecstasy, sadness or rage with almost dangerous intensity.”
Hamburg’s New Music Hall Has Featured Ultra-Relevant Music, Almost By Accident
And that’s partly because of money: “The runaway success of the Elbphilharmonie — every event this season is sold out, largely because of fascination with the architecture — gives Mr. Lieben-Seutter a rare degree of freedom. ‘The public is generally skeptical when it comes to contemporary music,’ he said. ‘But from a building like this people expect new experiences. Whenever we have played contemporary music we have had a very positive, focused public.'”
Did You Experience Peak Broadway This Weekend?
Seriously: All 40 theatres were full (the 41st is under renovation right now). How rare is this? (And what’s doing well, or less than well?)
Craft Artists Deserve Notice Too, And That’s Going To Cost The Museum Accomplishing That
Here’s some of how a $25,000 NEA grant broke down for L.A.’s Craft and Folk Museum to mount Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California: “Security for the show cost $1,200. Postcard printing and mailing cost $150. Three advertising spots on a local NPR station totaled $1,500. Lighting and painting supplies were $1,140. Insurance for the show was $1,200. The most expensive item on the list: $8,000 for labels and wall text fabrication for the exhibition. Artist fees for all commissioned work totaled only $6,000.”
Gertrude Stein, Famous Teacher Of Freshman Composition
Read Gertrude Stein carefully, and tenaciously, and you’ll see how she teaches writing with every rigorous sentence. (No, she was not a famous teacher of composition, of course.) “To Gertrude Stein, the arrangement and creation of sentences and paragraphs was always paramount, no matter the origin.”
Ballet Idaho’s Artistic Director Is About To Retire
In 2008, the ballet dissolved its artistic partnership with the Eugene Ballet and struck out on its own with Peter Anastos at its head. “Starting a new company from scratch is certainly not for sissies,” he says now, as he prepares to finish up his decade with the reinvented company.
Why Did Australia’s Most Famous Artist Turn His Back On The Couple Who Gave Him Love And Launched Him To Fame?
And what’s the deal with art historians who have failed to use primary sources while talking about them? “A modest exhibition of slate paintings will not be the grandest tribute paid to Sidney Nolan in his centenary year. But it is perhaps the most poignant. Australia’s greatest 20th-century artist painted them in the early 1940s while in the early throes of his decade-long affair with Sunday Reed, and living in a decidedly modern menage with Sunday and her husband John.”
Netflix Is Digging Deeper For More, And Better, Original Films
But films – especially documentaries after the recent rule change at the Academy – on Netflix are shut out of Oscars consideration next year. Still, “for filmmakers like Mr. Leon, the flexibility of the Netflix option is an artistic lifesaver.”
Why Is Bach’s St. John Passion Getting So Much (More) Play This Year?
Seriously, why? “The ‘St. John’ problem has become ever more troubling in the decades since World War II and the Holocaust. With the horrible potential latent in anti-Semitism ever more apparent, any performance or hearing of this work must be cause for sober reflection, not mere mindless pleasure.”
Eurovision Sits At The Intersection Of Pop Culture And Politics – And This Year, It’s A Fiery Combination
Ukraine banned Russia’s entry from competing because the singer had once visited Crimea, the part of Ukraine that Russia “annexed” in 2014. That comes after Ukraine’s singer won the 2016 competition with a song that appeared to explicitly discuss some of Stalin’s misdeeds in Crimea during WWII. That’s a lot of meaning for a pop song contest to carry.
Need A Theatre Program In Your Elementary School? Better Ask Disney For Money
Of course, the program is called “Disney Musicals in the Schools,” and the kids produce and perform a “Disney KIDS” musical during the year they get funding and support, but hey: “Teachers will learn how to create all parts of a show, including building a rehearsal schedule, developing and maintaining a budget, choreographing a number, teaching the music and directing a show.”
What’s It Like To Film In Havana Now?
Shooting car chases, for instance, “is way more dangerous than you’re used to,” says the director of the newest installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise. “There are so many fans of the franchise in Cuba. We had to hire 100 locals to lock down a 20-block straightaway, because there were over 10,000 people watching us shoot. That’s phenomenal energy that you can feed off of to create, but there’s also safety considerations.”
Adding ‘Marijuana Grow House Worker’ To The Traditional Jobs L.A. Actors Do Before They Get Their Breaks
Lakeith Stanfield, who had a very creepy role to play in Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” and is a star on the series “Atlanta,” says it’s time for Black culture to be recognized in Hollywood. “Hollywood’s been racist since its inception. But now it’s opening up. Now it’s becoming much more real, inclusive.”
No, The Likenesses Of Dead Actors (Like Carrie Fisher) Should Not Appear On Screen
Using CGI to “reanimate” or recreate an actor for a movie is wrong…
Where Missing Women Congregate On Gallery Walls
Kenyatta Hinkle, who made a name for herself as a young artist in a 2012 Hammer Museum show, has a new show making waves in L.A. She “would play hip-hop, including Kanye West, and then draw on acid-free, recycled paper, dipping Spanish moss into India ink while dancing, which creates the nebulous and sporadic nature of her work.”
The Rate Of Customers Ditching Cable Is Speeding Up
“U.S. pay-TV providers lost around 1.9 million subscribers last year, according to the latest research from Kagan, a unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Meanwhile, “virtual” pay-TV services delivered over the internet like Dish’s Sling TV and AT&T’s DirecTV Now didn’t help stop the overall sector from shrinking in 2016.”
Music Sales Hit Five-year High In The UK
“Combined takings from streaming, downloads, physical sales and licensing for use in films, TV and computer games rose 5.1% to £926m. The main contributor to growth was streaming, but vinyl revenues rose by more than two thirds.”
Report: Impacts Of Streaming Live Performances Of The Arts
“The report, compiled by Frédéric Julien of CAPACOA and research consultant Inga Petri, argues that non-profit groups will need to consider their own versions of vertical integration, with presenters making strategic alliances with producers or co-operating with private industry to build networks large enough to draw the audiences they will need. As a model it points to Radioplayer Canada, a single app implemented by 400 public, private, community and campus radio stations. For the performing arts, the details are still hazy, but the message is clear: Go digital or go home.”